Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-02-07
Murdered His Landlady.
JEALOUS HENRY sHIPMAN FIRES FoUR BULLETS ISru
THE WHOM NasOy

THK WIDOW MASON.
Josephine Mason widow OF a.. has kepr boar,l-
ing house at :s'9west 3lst street, New York. nearly
three years. She and her IO-year-old daughter
Emma slept In the front room ON the second floor
OF the house, which is three-story brick English
basement. Henry Shipman was one OF her
Doarder7, ana he rented the back room on the
second noor Last Thursday Mrs.. Mason was
Out, ana returned shortly after O'Clock. She told
the servant, Mary Healy who let her In that She
wanted To write note, and would 90 up Ia Ship
mans room ana write at his table She bade
Mary run up stairs and tell her the moment Ship
man came in. She had hardly got up stairs when
the bell rang again, and Mary let In Mr. Shlpman-
She ran up stairs without waiting 10 close tie
door FOR Shipman, and told MIS- Mason, who Was
In his ruom that he had come. Mrs Mason wa,
writing at table. The servant went down stairs
10 the basement and met Shipman going up Sh,
had barely reached the kitchen when pistol shots
were heard Mis-. Mason screamed and ran down.
She ran Into the basement and out into the back
yard, where She fell some one In the house called
In a policeman. ShipInan WAS found sitting fD hi5
roo,n anu plsoo 81 81 calbr, from which four
told the sergeant that he was 81 years old and had
no business. The policeman charged him with
shooting the woman, and laid the revolver ON the
desk.
Yes, shot at her" said shipman calmly.
"Mhdt did you do IL for?"
son account OF jealousy was his reply
When the ambulance from Roosevelt hospital
arrived at The house Mrs Mason was lying uncon-
back, one ia the back of her right leg and another
on the outside OF her left arm. IL looked as An She
hau RAISED ntr arm 10 ward on the frSt bullet.
and had received the Others as she ran. She died
few minutes after reaching the hospital Mho
Shipinan Is nobody about the house seemed 10
know. lie always dressed nicely. He Is ten or
twelve years younger than she Was.
III. c. Nilkens, brother OF the dead woman
said: "No one saw the shooting, and l can give 10
reason for IL. L know that Shipman Is a hard
dr1nker, and that lac has been drinking lately,
Little Emma Mason said that she thought Mr.
Shipman wanted 10 marry her mother but that
her mother wouldn't think OF IL.
The New York World or sunday says: Shipman
was held without bah for Trial He comes from
one OF the best families OF the state OF New York
His mother told with difficulty a history OF his
life, saying that when he born he had cry sipe-
las OF the brain, and has since been erratIc and has
been confined Ina funatic asylum. She says ne WAS
never dissipaJed. She Is utterly crushed 10y the
blow, and IL was an affecting meeting that she had
with her son Friday. When Shipman entered the
room where his mother was ne stared vacantly
and gave no evidence OF recognizing her. The
gray-haired old lady burst into tears, and throw
Ing her about her sons neck and kissing him
cried: 1Henry, don't you know me? Don't you know
your mothers" The prisoner looked coldly at has
mother and replied: "Weil, MOTHER she was a
pure woman She was pure and yfrtuous
woman This is all he would say and no Other
thought seemed 10 be I'm his mind. Concerning
Shlpman'S means, Mr. Howe, his counsel, said that
his father had hft him about 500, 900 in trust Of
this sum he has had the Use OF only the Interest